Jose Barata

Jose Barata is a Full Professor in Electrical and Computing Engineering and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Program in Electrical and Computing Engineering at the NOVA-FCT, where he is currently responsible for the courses units Robotics, Systems Integration, Telerobotics, and Autonomous Systems, and Robotics Systems and CIM.

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Full Professor at NOVA University Lisbon

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Research Group Coordinator and Leading researcher at UNINOVA

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Scientific Director of Smart Farm Colab (SFCOLAB)

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He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Robotics and Integrated Manufacturing from NOVA-FCT in 2004. He also has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the FCT-NOVA in 1995, a degree in Computer Science from the FCT-NOVA in 1990, a BSc in Electrical Engineering with a major in Digital Systems from ISEL in 1987, and a BSc in Maritime Electronics and Telecommunications from the Merchant Navy School (ENIDH) in 1982.

Jose Barata is a senior researcher at the CTS – Centre of Technology and Systems at the UNINOVA Institute, where he is coordinating the research group RICS – Robotics and Industrial Complex Systems (http://rics.uninova.pt), which develops research in the areas of service robots and smart industry. RICS has over 20 members, including 4 PhDs, 8 PhD Students, Master Students, and Technicians. Within the RICS group, he has led the UNINOVA participation in several international projects from different European Programs, namely FP6 EUPASS, FP6 Self-Learning, FP7 IDEAS, FP7 PRIME, FP7 RIVERWATCH, FP7 ROBO-PARTNER, FP7 PROSECO, H2020 OPEN-MOS, H2020 PERFORM, H2020 GO0DMAN, MSC ITN DIMANDI, H2020 AVANGARD, and H2020 SOLSTICE. He has coordinated the H2020 project BIECO in the area of cybersecurity. He has also coordinated three research National Projects from the Portuguese Science Council (FCT) in smart manufacturing, service robots, and AI applied to the diagnosis of COVID-19.

He has coordinated the participation of UNINOVA in several industrial projects related to Industry 4.0 and autonomous service robots for surveillance and agriculture. Together with his RICS group, he has won the INCM (Mint House and Official Print) INNOVATION Prize, which was awarded in May 2018. The winning proposal was the development of an advanced industry 4.0-based autonomous intralogistics platform for the INCM shop floor to improve operator safety, process security, and optimization of product shipment. The idea is now being developed and implemented under the direct contract between INCM and UNINOVA.

He is the scientific coordinator of the Collaboratory Laboratory aiming to boost Digital Innovation in Agriculture: the SFCOLAB: Smart Farm Collaborative Laboratory. His main research interests are in SMART Manufacturing (Industry 4.0), with a particular focus on Complex Adaptive Systems involving intelligent manufacturing devices and Robotics systems focused on multi-robot interactions. For Industry 4.0 he has contributed to some of the basic concepts behind Industry 4.0, namely about intelligent modular components or cyber-physical systems, and participated in some of the initial industrial demonstrators of these concepts, together with companies such as FESTO, SIEMENS, PHILIPS, and ELECTROLUX.

He has contributed to developing all-terrain, aerial, and surface vehicles in the Robotics area. He has published over 200 original papers in international journals and international conferences. He is a member of the IEEE technical committees on Industrial Agents (IES), Self-Organisation and Cybernetics for Informatics (SMC), and Education in Engineering and Industrial Technologies (IES). He is also a member of the IFAC technical committee 4.4 (Cost-Oriented Automation). He has more than 5000 citations (https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=4G8tKCsAAAAJ&hl=en).